Türkiye’nin Değişen Rolünü Erdoğan’ın 2014 Sonrası Söylemine Bakarak Anlamak

Year 2022, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 93 - 106, 31.12.2022

Mehmet Furkan Ergül Shun-wen Wang

Abstract

Cumhuriyetin kuruluşundan bu yana, 2011 yılına kadar Türkiye'nin rol anlayışları büyük ölçüde aynıydı ve Türk dış politikası bu rollere dayanıyordu. Ancak Arap Baharı ve Suriye İç Savaşı'nın başlamasının ardından Türkiye'nin rol anlayışları da değişim gösterdi. Bu makalenin amacı, Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan'ın konuşmalarını inceleyerek bu politika değişikliklerinin nedenlerini anlamaktır.

Elde edilen bulgulara göre, Erdoğan'ın başbakanlık ve cumhurbaşkanlığı döneminde Türkiye'nin rol anlayışları ve dış politika tercihleri iki geçiş dönemi ve iki ana dönem olmak üzere dört kategoriye ayrılmıştır. Türkiye, şu anda ikinci geçiş döneminde bulunuyor. Özellikle Rusya-Ukrayna savaşı ve ardından gelen enerji krizi, Türkiye'nin arabulucu ve ticaret ülkesi rollerini daha da güçlendirmiş ve ikinci geçiş sürecini hızlandırmıştır.

Keywords

Rol Teorisi, Türkiye, Türk Dış Politikası

Understanding Türkiye’s Changing Role Based On President Erdoğan’s Post-2014 Narrative

Abstract

Since the establishment of the Republic, the role conceptions of Türkiye had largely remained unchanged until 2011 and Turkish foreign policy has been based on these roles. However, after the beginning of the Arab Spring and the Syrian Civil War, Türkiye’s role conceptions have changed. The aim of this article is to explain the reasons of these policy changes by examining President Erdoğan’s statements.

According to the findings of the study, during Erdoğan’s prime ministry and presidency until 2022, by which this study was conducted, Türkiye’s role conceptions and foreign policy choices based on these conceptions can be divided into four categories, two transition periods and two main periods. Türkiye is in the middle of the second transition period. Especially the war between Russia and Ukraine and the subsequent energy crisis strengthened Türkiye’s position as a mediator and a trading country even further, and accelerated the second transition process.

Keywords

Role theory, Türkiye, Turkish Foreign Policy

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